(Disclosure: I am not a lawyer!) (Request: Are you a lawyer? Please send me corrections 🙂) Matters related to law, and all the discussions around it, interest me much — especially when related to Software. This made me read about the subject and keep contact with the legal representatives within the company I work for. This also

I was reading a job position offering these days for a “QA engineer“. There was the usual mumbo jumbo of the required traits (“BSC in computer science or equivalent“, “Worked directly with R&D department“) and advantage points (“General knowledge of at least one mainstream (programming) language“), and one of the requirements lines said “Testing methodologies:

I like the SQE. SQE brings columns by Michael Bolton almost monthly on the Better Magazine. They also arrange the nice STAR conferences (hadn’t the opportunity to participate yet, but I will eventually) and store a large number of articles online of all testing flavors. Today morning I was greeted by an Email from SQE: The subject read

I’ve recently heard The Graphing Calculator Story, a ~54:00 min long Google Tech video on YouTube. On it, Ron Avitzur tells the story of the development of his (and Greg’s) Graphing Calculator, an impressive mathematical software that shipped with Mac computers for years. What’s special about the story? Well, he did it at Apple, but

Hi. Writing the Fitnesse posts turned to be harder than I thought. I do have a bit of tests ready for the triangle case, but not enough text to make an interesting post. As I’m not using Fitnesse in my day-to-day work, it makes it harder to bring cool insights or to explore on the framework. But

We all are told constantly not to think like a programmers. We’ve told other people dozens of times “Don’t you think like a programmer. We don’t care why the software does it – it is still wrong”. For testers, thinking like developers is evil. If you think like a programmer, you’ll start excusing the software

I’ve started a quote collection. Many times I want to quote someone but I just don’t remember how exactly the phrase was. Or remember the quote but am not certain on the source… I am fond of quoting. Not sure why, but I like to quote. I guess it gives some legitimating to what I am saying.